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Was wondering how to remove the reply to comments button? I figured there would be a huge formatting problem with many subsequent replies to people’s other replies. Here is a picture to show what I want to do. Please any help would be greatly appreciated:

Worked it out! For those who are interested in how to do this, you need to go to wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-templatetags.php and delete this code:

if ( is_user_logged_in() )
					$content .= '<span class="acomment-replylink"> &middot; <a href="#acomment-' . $comment->id . '" class="acomment-reply" id="acomment-reply-' . $activities_template->activity->id . '">' . __( 'Reply', 'buddypress' ) . '</a></span>';

Anytime you make changes to the core you will lose them next time you update buddypress.

You might try this rather than a core hack.

function my_filter_activity_comment_reply_links( $content ) {
     preg_replace( '(<span class="acomment-replylink">).*?(</span>)', '', $content );

     return $content;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_recurse_comments', 'my_filter_activity_comment_reply_links' );

I have not tested this, but, fingers crossed, it should work.

hi @cnorris23 ,

fingers did not help, function returns:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier ‘.’ in …… on line 2

You need to put this in your bp-custom.php

hi @gunju2221 ,

did you really checked it with bp-custom?
for me it returns same warning, not depending from where I put it.

you can try this: haven’t tested it…

replace the preg_replace in fns.

preg_replace( '#<span class="acomment-replylink">(.*)</span>#s', '', $content);

thanks Alan, this does not return warnings, but does not remove sub-replies too

Try this:

function my_filter_activity_comment_reply_links( $content ) {
     preg_replace( '/(<span class="acomment-replylink">)(.*)(</span>)/g', '', $content);

     return $content;
}

Also, it should be noted that this code is not restricted to your bp-custom.php file. It can also go in your theme’s functions.php file.

thanks @cnorris23 ,
but did not work for me again, don’t know, maybe I have some other function, which does not allow this one to work correctly. probably, will have to change core file and put it in some reminder.

I haven’t been testing these. I’ll try to test tonight and get you a working one. A core hack the last thing you want to do.